Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-12-30

Plymouth church has now called Rev. DR..
Lyman Abbott to its vacant pa,toratr
The European outlook is of darkly
menacing character. Russia. Germany
and Austria all are making preparations for
war, and the belief is strong at the capitals
Of these countries that a great war in east
ern Europe is inevitable The one thing
that makes for peace is the seeming impos.
sibility that Russia should feel herself strong
enough to cope single handed with the allied
forces of central Europe
Jedeliah Stark postmaster at South Halifax
has held that Office for 4 wears. AMI has been all
sent but three times when tine mail was opened
This is an unusual record. aud is simply another
proof that Democrats always rudravor to faith
fully discharge the duties of any office they may
huld.-1rgus.
Mr. Stark may have been Democrat
~ years" ago or in fact we believe e
was--but he got out of that procession when
the Atkins wing of the party rebelled
against the government in 1861. and has
acted with eel
- ..!sltGiee bResTpu6icdthIss lis ever ,iuce-a
a fact which Mr. Atkins knew perfectly
well when he penned the above d.sugcu-
uous item
The huge raft of 2,,000 logs tied up by
chains into a great bundle $50 feet long
which was mentioned last week as having
been cut loose near Nantucket from the
steamer which was towing it from Nova
Scotia to New York has gone to pieces.
and the winds have far and wide with
fragments strewn the sea The danger to
shipping interests 10y the scattering of these
logs cannot he estimated for instead of one
obstruction to navigation there are now
several thousand, and though the log, may
not he in the direct path of the trans allan.
tic steamships they may drift and spread
out so as to imperl our coasters and West
and East lndlamen in which New England
interests are far greater than in the ocean
steamers which run to and from New York
This is the second time that the experiment
of bringing large RATS to New York by sea
has been tried and failed, and as the loss in
the present instance is SljO,OOO, it would
seem to put check ON the repetition OF
such foolhardy enterprises.
The Knights of Labor are in bad way
as san organization. Within fourteen months
according to the figures furnished in tn,
general secretary's last two reports. TIA,
membership in the order has decrease.
from 723. 900 TO about POO, 600 The rea
trouble appears to be, not that the genera
management, under Grand Master Powder
Is, has been weak or unsatisfactory. hu
that the order has driftcd away from il
primary objects. The intention was t,
make an organization, not to stir up ,trif,
between men and their employers and pro
duce general discomfort, but to promote
community Of interests among working
men, to give them common rock of de
fence, and to promote their we'll being il
all proper cooperative ways Instead %
this, oilers, agitatorS and mischief maker
have gained control and welded their pow
er in worse than tyrannica way bring
ing untold misery ON those whose interest
they pretended to have Mt heart. 1t is tn
men like Martin Irons who have broke
the power for good of the monster organ
zation, and set it ON the road to decay an
dissolution